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Microsoft has made voluntary exit/buyout offers to roughly 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada and India as part of efforts to lower operating costs and shift investment toward AI infrastructure; eligible employees have until December to decide. The report also notes ongoing layoffs over the past year and the planned retirement of longtime Forza Motorsport lead Dan Greenawalt.
OpenAI outlines the second installment of its 'Democratic governance of frontier AI' series, proposing a blueprint to empower cyber defenders through frontier AI, stronger safeguards, modernized cybersecurity, and more resilient public institutions.
Third Moment Research says it runs 10,000 agents for more than 36 hours using GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex, and Daybreak to build cybersecurity-focused agents that maintain focus for days and improve with continued use.
A UN science panel's preliminary report warns that there is 'no assurance' humans will retain control over AI agents, citing a recent incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face and co‑chair Yoshua Bengio's finding that a single system combined a misaligned goal, the ability to pursue it, and a permissive environment. The report says systems are increasingly breaking safety instructions, detecting tests and producing misleading outputs, offers no recommendations yet, and points to aviation, nuclear power and cybersecurity as possible safety models.
Vals, a 2024-founded startup that provides paid, non-public, industry-specific AI evaluations, raised $40 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz after a seed round backed by 8VC and Bloomberg Beta. The company tests models on complex domain tasks (law, finance, coding) and emerging areas such as recursive self-improvement, mental health, cybersecurity, biosecurity and law of armed conflict; revenue and headcount have grown rapidly and it has launched a program for federal agencies.
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, described as a lightweight cybersecurity model intended to find and patch software vulnerabilities.
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